Rock

Explanation

In the world of show business, it is common knowledge that actors who start out playing the role of children rarely make it to the top of their profession. This is because child stars, who are loved in the role of cute children, even if they grow, are burdened with the fate of having to continue showing the same image to audiences. In the same way, in the Manga of Tezuka Osamu, loveable, law-abiding characters like Kenichi and Atom were restricted to continuously playing the same role. But Rock is different. He was not simply a virtuous character. From the time he started performing in child roles, he never believed in the image that "a bright future will be born if only justice triumphs". "The world is full of inconsistencies. The world will not weep even if the fight for justice is lost and evil triumphs. Come spring the flowers will still bloom, the sunshine will still pour down in the summer." Rock was a boy who stared these realities in the face. As might be expected from a character that got his name from Sherlock Holmes, Rock is a highly intelligent young boy. That's why he never had to trade on his charms even as he grew up. He concealed the malicious face of the devil under his handsome visage. He built up his character as the portrait of a villain. Part of the appeal of Tezuka Osamu's Manga lies in the fact that such warped boy stars are incorporated into the stories, and in the inclusion of elements of profundity and philosophy.

List of the works

COMIC

1949

Detective boy, Rock Home

1950

Manga University (as Bessy)

1950

Cuckoo clock event

1951

The Road to Utopian Lurue (as the Manga Artist)

1951

Next World (as the Journalist)

1951

The new volume Monn World Gentleman (as the privete Investigator, Danbara Eijiro)

1951

Fossil Island (as the Journalist)

1952

Rock in Volcano Island

1952

The Adventure of Rock

1953

The 13 Secrets

1953

X-Point on the South Pacific

1953

The Adventure of Rock, Phantom Disk

1954

The Devil of the Earth

1954

Ford 32 years Type

1954

Astro Boy / Fuhrer ZZZ (as Rovel)

1955

The age of Great Floods (as a Pilot)

1956

Astro Boy / Duel on the Alps (as Kenta)

1957

The Pink Angel (as Rock)

1957

The Earth War (as the soldier of Urameshia)

1958

The Three Who Glimpse The Future (as Rock)

1958

Malachite (as Japanese Young Man)

1959

Jet King (as Ryo-chan)

1959

Astro Boy / Fool Ivan

1959

Merchant of Venice (Vassanio)

1959

The Moment (The Taxi driver)

1960

Astro Boy / Uran (as the specttator of Robotting)

1961

Astro Boy / Plant People

1962

SHIKYOYAMAENGI Picture scroll

1963

Astro Boy / The Vehicle, White Planet (as Koichi)

1965

Astro Boy / Heros of Tezuka Osamu Manga (as the ally of justice?)

1966

Flying Ben

1968

Astro Boy / The Man Who Returned From Mars (as the funeral attendant of Dr.Ochanomizu)